Comments on: The Open Database Alliance and the Future of MySQL

By: tecosystems » tecosystems 2009: What You Read, How You Read It, and Where You Read it From

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:52:00 +0000

[...] The Open Database Alliance and the Future of MySQL (2.4) [...]

By: tecosystems » Amazon, RDS and the Future of MySQL

tecosystems » Amazon, RDS and the Future of MySQL — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:25:23 +0000

[...] Consider that the available forks of MySQL are, for reasons that have been apparent for some time, not only technically differentiated, but regarded by many in the community as superior to the builds available from MySQL itself. In spite of this, they are, as Mårten argues above, individually weak. Forks cannot use the MySQL brand, and they cannot hope to match MySQL’s distribution in the near term through conventional distribution mechanism. But Amazon wouldn’t necessarily need the brand (in the context of EC2, which is stronger – Linux or EC2?), and its cloud offers massive advantages over conventional distribution. What if, compelled by market conditions and Oracle pricing, Amazon eventually stopped talking about its MySQL databases in favor of a compatibility story that would permit it host your MySQL databases. And what if, for whatever the reason, MySQL developers were unhappy with the state of affairs and chose to leave, making them available to Amazon? Or Amazon shifted its partnership to the Open Database Alliance? [...]

By: tecosystems » Oracle, MySQL and the EU: The Q&A

tecosystems » Oracle, MySQL and the EU: The Q&A — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:28:34 +0000

[...] exclusivity with respect to the license. Trademark protects the name, logo and so on, and as Monty told me in an interview, means in practical terms that forks cannot call themselves [...]

By: Maria Engine und Datenbank Tipps-Archiv - 1000 Tipps und Tricks

Maria Engine und Datenbank Tipps-Archiv - 1000 Tipps und Tricks — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:13:11 +0000

[...] Blog: http://monty-says.blogspot.com Download: MariaDB Download Page MySQL Performance-Blog & Redmonk Tags dieses Artikels: Datenbank, MariaDB, MySQL Verwandte [...]

By: Open Database Alliance: lo sviluppo di MySQL deve essere libero, indipendente e comunitario

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:11 +0000

[...] ovviamente sulle relazioni che potrebbero intercorrere tra Oracle e la Open Database Alliance, e c’è chi analizza la nascita di quest’ultima non soltanto dal punto di vista della…, una licenza che è al contempo sia open source che commerciale: per effetto di tale licenza [...]

By: 451 CAOS Theory » Q&A: MariaDB and the Open Database Alliance

451 CAOS Theory » Q&A: MariaDB and the Open Database Alliance — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:58:49 +0000

[...] 26, 2009 @ 10:58 am ET Following the launch of the Open Database Alliance a number of interesting reports were published that examined its role in establishing MariaDB as an alternative development branch [...]

By: Yet more on MySQL forks and storage engines | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services

Fri, 22 May 2009 06:16:03 +0000

[...] some reason, the identical comments have also appeared one by one on a Stephen O’Grady blog post, with links back to the original thread. I did not actually post the comments attributed to me, so [...]